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VULGAR ERRORS IN THE LAW. GENERAL ELECTION. NORTHUMBERLAND, &Norio:, MONDAY. State of the poll at the close of the 12th day-- Liddell - 1,485 Beaumont Bell - 1,331 I Howick W 76 Mr. Beauniont continues to gain upon hix opponent, Mr. Bell. The Bell party show signs of the greatest weakness, and it is probable, if Mr. Beaumont can only bring up 130 inure voter's, that his election will he secure. Lord flowick has found it im possible to transfer many of his split votes to Mr. Bell. A hotly of the Alnwick freeholders, who had promised to split on Liddell and Ilorvick, voted to-day for Beaumont and Ilowick ; the latter Was unwilling to absolve them from their promises six regarded tiiniself, knowing, if he did, they would immediately vote for Liddell and Beaumont ; Air. Liddell, however, was enabled to dis pense with their votes, and on being pekes 1 by him, the y voted for Mr. Beaumont, to the no small chagrin of the Howick and Bell party. I see no probability whatever of the election being over before three o'clock on Thursday. Atrmicic, MoNnar, Fivz o'CLocic. Lord Ilowick has just announced his intention of retiring from the contest. This will be in favour of Mr. Beaumont. scoTLA ND. (From the .Dundee Advertiser.) FORFARSIIIRE. The Hon. Wm. Manic, of Panniure, was on 'Tuesday unani mously elected, for the seventh time, representative of the county of Forfar in Parliament. The lion. Douglas Gordon HaHybl'' , ton being called to the Chair, Mr. LAING .NIYABON, of Lindertis, said, "As we are now prepared to enter upon the important business of the day, the eboice of a representative in Parliament, I rise to propose that mu. latt worthy Member, the Hon. Win. Malik, of I'anmure, be again elected." Mr. A. 1 .11. GUTH ftlk younger ► of Craigie, heeotaleci the no mination. Mr. 111auf.Esaid, " Gentlemen, it ii no less gratifying to my feelings than flattering to myself, to be called upon for the se venth time to return to you my warmest thanks for the distin guished honour you have conferred upon me by placing in my hands the guardianship of the interests of this great and inde pendent county in Parliament,---a trust the duties of which I shall endeavour to discharge to the best of my humble abilities. I return my sincere thanks, and hope to meet you all by and by in the Town-hall." At three o'clock, about 150 gentlemen sat down to a most rqumptitous dinner in the Town-hall ; Mr. Maul° in the chair; supported on the right by Mr. flume, General Hay, and the Hon. Douglas Gordon Hallyhurton ; and on the left by General Kerr, and Mr. Walton, of Lindertiv. " The King:" " The Constitution, as established at the glorious Revolution ;" " The House of Hanover, and may they never for get the principles which placed their family on the throne ;" " The Duke of Sussex, the tried friend of civil and religious liberty ;" " The dignity of the Crown, the independence of Par liament, and the rights of the People ;" were successively given as toasts from the Chair. In proposing as a toast " The worthy and independent freeholder! of the county of Forfar," Mr. Mettle again, with a bumper full and n heart full, expressed his grateful acknowledgments for the high honour by them conferred on him by returning him for the eighth time as their representative in Pat liament. An excellent band played appropriate music to each toast. The meeting broke up about eight o'clock. Notwithstanding the intense beat of the weather, a hand of stout young men took the horses from Mr. Maule's coach, and became substitutes for them in drawing the worthy member, and his friend Mr. Hume, a goodly way along the road to Brechin. IRELAND. COUNTY GALWAY. Gat.war Toww, JULY 1.-L-The shooting of Jerry Sullivan en Wednesday evening, by the Lambertite gentlethen, caused a great ferment-4w it was said he haul given no (Wince whatever, and that the " gentlemen" fired their pistols wantonly among the crowd, wounding four or five other innocent persons. The pre sence of the military and mounted police, however, together with the prompt measures taken by the ?rigor for the appreheagion of the IMAM gentlemen; had a composing effect on the multitude; and, after a world of talk, the ferment gradually subsided. In the mean time the following gentlemen, charged with having taken part in the pistolling affair, were arrested :--The Hon. Dennis A. Bingham; Mr. Thomas D. Lambert, of Crigclare; Mr. David . Wilson, of Clare; ftlessre. O'Connor, of Conlee ; Mr. W. Perue, of Galway; and Mr. J. W Brown, of Dublin : and they - were forthwith marched into the jail, under a military escort, to await the issue of the Coroner's inquest. The poll that evening closed thus : Daly b 3.54 Lambert - - 3567 Martin - - 2774 —leaving poor Mr. Martin in a woful minority of 793 ; but nevertheless his agents looked very fierce, cocked their hats aside, and toad's blood ! we'll fetch it up quite azy to -morrow !" TIIII/0:11AV Momets.(l.—The town all quiet; and its bare legged damsels paddling in the bright brawling waters of Lough corrib, as jocund and comfortable as though nothing at all had happened---seeming quite miconacions that " the eyes of all Eu rope were upon the place." But, as the day wore on, and the eon grew hot, the electioneering gentry began to cock their hats and swagger about the town, a't though each man was aware that the destinies of a great and elegant country depended on his own personal exertions. Meantime sonic over-curious children, groping amongst the still smoking ruins of the house burned down by the illartinites, found the half-consumed body of another forty shilling freeholder ; and every body began abut ting up their shops, apprehensive that it would cause ano ther battle—for in this tine country a battle answers every purpose. However there was no battle on this occasion, and after a littlehowling, the poor roasted freeholder was forgot ten in the interest excited by fresh levies of living ones, corning from the country in dusty droves to vote 1.4 Squat. Morrill, or Kurrenil 11firtizt—for by both thou titles is Mr. Martin addres sed by his own sweet freeholders. They were a fine specimen of " the finest peasantry on the face of God's blessed earth !" each roan with his hairy trunk beautifully exposed ; his knees un buttoned, to show the red crop beneath them growing; his beard unshaved ; his line hanging nether lip plastered with the leaf of some healing herb ; his teeth of a picturesque greenish brown; his rusty narrow-brimmed hat tied with a bit of packthread; his eyes looking unutterable things; and his great grand sire's most greasy cudgel dangling in his fist. It had been given out in the early part of the day, that the Coroner would hold an inquest on the body of Jerry Sullivan in the whisky store of one Mr. Patrick Costello, by the side of the mar ket-green ; but it seems it was afterwards deemed expedient to hold it in a inure retired place ; for about two o'clock in the afternoon, the bellows of the town, with a bell nearly as large as a tea-cup, went about the streets, hold up his shelalegh (to sig nify that he we; an Trial; bellman) and crying, " Oyez! Vara notiee....;.that 411 the witnesses—as was present—at the warm. stitanes of Jerrumiali Sullywin—yesterday—inust repair in stantly—without delay—to the town gaol ; for there the !Caret ner is viten to take their dispaaitions." In the course of the af ternoon, such was tho state of this fine people, that a requisition was presented to the Mayor by Mr. Lambert's Committee, beg ging him to cull nut the military, to protect their voters front out rage ; to which his Worship replied, as I MO informed, that he could do nothing until after the Inquest on Jerry Sullivan. At the close of the poll for the day the numbers stood thus:— Daly - - b 613 lambert 3683 Martin - 3010 IhAT This morning the town was alarmed by a report that a e larg army tiMartiniteti were coining in to carry every th i ng b e f ore them, and the inhabitants immediately shut up their shops, in ex pectation of the Pm event; but, luckily fife the craniums of 40111 e part of the celebrated "six millions," that fine display of tp „. triotism—or pot-try-ot-iaiti, as the Irish might 5ay.,...41id not take place. The fact is, the hot-iam of Mr. Lambert's Kommy- tee men, in pistolling poor Jerry Sullivan, has quite entirely spoiled hit election for so fearful were his would-be voters of the mosequerices probably-consequent thereon, that not one of them dared to come forward, and he did not poll a single vote this day. Consequently Squar Martin," by dint of great exertion and much muddy three -days-old-beer, with a little excise whisky, was enabled to reduce his minority from six hundred and twenty three toftur hundred and eighty-two. The weather in this beautiful " emerald gem" i s as h o t as t h e temper of its inhabitants. Indeed the whole concern, mental as well gi physic a l, is at high ro asting heat, and every thing good is literally burnt up—done brown as it were. SATURDAY MORNINO, UN O'CLOCK. Ti At town has been quiet all night, and there ill 130 appearance 01 TM this KlDlrgiDg. The community is a sinatterer in almost every science that is known to the world, and accepts of certain opinions on certain points connected with the arts and sciences as plain undoubted facts,—and hence it happens that vulgar errors prevail more or lessio all a them. The law is chiefly subject to these received opinions, because it is a science that reaches the humblest cottage in the obscurest quarter of the country; and because the poorest men are, from their stations, more exposed to feel its operation, and render homage to its supremacy. Tina reason may account for the multitude of vulgar errors that exist on the subject of the Criminal Law,—indeed, they may be almost said to he confined to that branch of Law, although a few may indeed be found in the Ci v il side. his a commonly received notion amongst the lower classes, that if the patient of a quack doctor should hap pen to die, the unfortunate quack must pay with his life 14 the want of virtue in his phySic or advice. Now a case might occur, where an indictment for murder would lie against a doctor for killing his patient ; but want of skill alone could hardly be a sufficient reason for hanging a doctor, inasmuch as malice afore-thought is a necessary ingredient to constitute the crime of murder, unless iii this case, as in the case of a person throwing a stone from the top of a house, which falls upon a person below and kills him, we pre sume malice against all the world, and hang the man upon this presumption. It is possible, we say, that such a case might happen, but it is barely probable, and therefore this opinion may be ranked amongst the vulgar errors of the law. But for the benefit of quacks in general, and doctors by birth, viz. the seventh sons of seventh sons, we will refer them to the act 3 Hen. 8, c. 11. which visits such pre tenders to " the science and cunning of physic and surgery," with a penalty of 5/. per patient ; one half to the king, and the other to the informer. An impres sion very generally prevails, that a surgeon and a but cher are both exempted from serving on juries, by reason of the barbarity of their callings. So fin' as the butcher is concerned, there is no ground whatever for the notion, and as to the surgeon, he is exempted not " by reason of the barbarity of his calling," but by the express words of an act of Henry the Eighth, passed for their encouragement, and the promotion of the study of physic. Most people believe, too, that the body of a debtor may be seized on its way to the grave, a no-, tion that has received encouragement from the very absurd story related in a marvellous dolorous manner by the showmen of Westminster Abbey, that a certain coffin there displayed contains the body of an am bassador, which was arrested on its way to the grave, and, was then deposited in the Abbey for safe custody. What could have given rise to an opinion so indecent as this it is hardly possible to say, for there is nothing in the law to sanction such a viola tion of the rites of burial, or such a disregard of the feelings of the deceased's relatives, or that decorum which the public has a right to expect at the hands of the officers of the law. To arrest a dead body is an indictable offence, and would without doubt be visited with the utmost se verity upon those who should be so hardy as, to he guilty of it. Lord Ellenborough, in the case of Jones v. Ashburnham, Hil. Term, 1804, declared " it was contrary to every principle of law-and moral feeling— an act revolting to humanity, andillegal." -When .a man is about to. - marry a'wonutu, it is • a general opinion that, uhould lie' be desirous to avoid incurring any liability to the debts his intended wife at that moment owes, he may do 'so, by receiving her at the hand of the priest., clothed only in her shill. Again, it is a very prevailing error that those who are born at sea have a legal settlement in the parish of Stepney. Indeed, so far has this error been insisted upon, that the parish Of Stepney has been called upon more than once to resist the imposition of - paupers upon them, whose only claim was the fact that they .• • were born at sea. Other vulgar errors are, that the old statutes have prohibited the planting of vineyards, or the Ilse of saW.• mg mills; and it appears not improbable that this ide a has arisen out of the Acts of Edward VI., Elizabeth, and Charles IL, and which severally forbid the use of gig-mills in the woollen manufacture, and the use of iron-mills within 22 miles of London, to prevent the increasing the price of fuel, and the plantation of the tobacco plant in England ; and all which, except those relating to gig-mills, are still in figee. It likewise supposed to be penal to open a coal , mine, or to kill a crow within five miles of London, and in the eyes of many the carrying a dark !author!) is also a public offence. Many also believe -that the King signs the death-warrant of every culprit con demned to die, whereas the sign manual is not re quired for any person's execution, except those sen tenced to death in London, and the necessity for which arises out of the privileges granted to the citi zens of London, and one of which is, that they shall not be executed save at the express command of the Sovereign. These are some of the numerous vulgar errors connected with the law which have crept into the public mind, but there are many more behind them, all equally absurd and groundless. But one in particular we cannot omit, which is this, that there is a statute which obliges the owner of asses to crop their ears, lest the length of them should frighten the horses which they meet on the road. Let those, therefore, who are - impressed with a belief in the genuineness of this law beware how they walk abroad, lest the public, minding the spirit of this unknown statute rather than its letter, take the liberty of cropping their ears, as an example to others, and to give a practical illustration of the virtue and effect of the Act of Parliament in question, although they don't know where to find it. SP011:17ING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSAL ST. Li 'ES, JULY 3. EGER. .... ........_. 4 to I apt BelSoni *2 to I agst Buxton 1g to I apt Bedlarnite 30 to 1 agst Barefoot II In I agst Pirate (taken) 35 to I isgst Mac Adam II to I apt Crusader 1000 to 10 apt The General (takeo• 14 to I apt The Dragon 1000 to i'l) apt Lady Cratnfeager 20 to I apt Fanny 1000 to 13 apt each of Forth's. NEWCASTLE RACES.---MOWDAY, JuLY 3. The Produce Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. Two miles. Mr. Loftuass b. c. True Blue - . 1 Mr. Gascoigna's b. c. by Magistrate - 2 to 4on Mr. Gaszoignes. A good race, and won by a neck. The Newcastle fitake of 2b cove. each; with 60 cove. added from the Town Subscription, for ell ages. Two miles. Mr. ( )onion's eh. C. by Aniroioan - 1 Mr. 'Atlanta,' b. f. Claudine - . 2 2tol on the winner. A good race. The os:Tr. it orthtiulw,i tak% h. h. ),b 25,, vreo . nea L" b, for all age!. Two r 'nil Sir E. Dodsworth's bl. c . b y Mag - istrate 2tol on the beer. A good race. The Tyro Stakes of 20 toys. ea c h, 11.slirr,i‘Ii..a6nWitbo.to4ittit'oadic,ltyth.,hech.wa.litnenyi.uil*AerbbysjoPja;.finfnoer. rate. FRENCH PAPERS. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) PARIS, JULY I. —The passing of the budget by the Chamber of Deputies, and the departure of a great number of the inhabi tants of Paris for the country, has, in a great measure, suspended political discussions. It would even appear that the attacks upon the Jesuits are less bitter than they were some time ago, and that there is a suspension of religious as Well as of political hostility. These holy jtersotts hail., however, just succeeded itt playing off hoax, quite in the character of their profession, upon the Libe rals ; but as the trick was a pleasant one, and one that can do no harm, it has passed over with a laugh. You shall hear the affair. You are pethapa aware, that among all our liberal advocates, there is none whose oratorical talents equal those of M. Dupin.— Such at least is the common opinion—an opinion which some journals have created, and which few think it necessary to die- Me. With the view of drawing him into his party, the Minister , consulted hint in some cases of difficulty, and by this act of de ference softened, but did not gain him. The Jesuits of St. Acheal, however, managed better. Learning that Dupin had to plead a cause before the Royal Court of Amiens, they sent a numerous deputation of their pupils to do homage to his talents. One of them addressed our orator in Greek, and compared him to De mosthenes ; another, who spoke in Latin, compared him to Cice ro ; and a third, whose harangue was in French, compared him to Dagnessau, and every thing illustrious that the French bar had produced. M. Dupin, far from suspecting any insincerity in this absurd exaggeration, took it all in good part, and regarded it as honest expression of truth. Accordingly, he returned to Paris pretty well satisfied as to the spirit of the Jesuits, anti quite en- I chanted with the sound judgment displayed by their pupils. Some time after our orator appeared again at Amiens, as Coun sel in another cause. This time he was not visited by the pupils of the Jesuits ; the professors themselves waited on hint, and they did homage to him in terms not less flattering than those they had dictated to their pupils. Having finished their harangues, ' they requested M. Dupin to do them the honour to visit their establishment. How was it possible to withstand so much politeness? 'M. Dupin proceeded to St. Acheal, where every body manifested an unbounded admiration of his talents, which, by the by, not one in the establishment knew any thing about. To prolong the pleasure which the presence of so great a man occasioned, be was asked to dinner, and this invitation he also accepted. After dinner it was proposed to him, with an air of indifference and quite as a matter of course, to attend the proces sion. Ile could not refuse hosts who had been so kind to him. One of the Jesuits wished to make him take a taper in his hand ; but that part of the ceremony he declined. It was not thought proper, however, to allow so eminent a person to mix in the crowd, and for the purpose of doing him honour, he was placed next to the priest who carried the host. Having got him there, one of the r►bands of the canopy was put into his hand, and he }►ad now gone too far to reject this distinction. In this way he marched with the procession through the village. In the mean time one of the priests slipped away from the pro cession, and wrote letters to all the newspapers of their party, stating that on such a day M. Dupin dined at St. Acheal, walked in the procession with the fathers of the establishment, and was one of the four who held the ribands of the canopy. If yob would form an idea of the effect of this news on the Liberals, only imagine how the pious Spaniards would feel if it were suddenly announced to then► that the Pope had wet►ed Turk. There are two elections this year from the Chamber of Deputies, and the Liberals would have voted for M. Dupin in both, but he has now lost himself for ever with his party. If M. Fraisainous was the author of this trick, he is a worthy rival of M. de Villele in the art of dupery. COLOMBIA. FROM THE NEW YORK PAPERS. " FROM COLOMBIA. "An arrival from Baltimore has brought advice. from La guayra to the 16th of May inclusive. We have seen letters from Caraccas of the 14th, and papers to the 10th, which are totally silent with regard to the late revolt. The Baltimore Gazette states that Pan was in Cumana, and was expected every day at Laguayra. The Governor of Porto Cabello declined joining the enterprise, and an uflicer of the army was put in his place. The garrison of Laguayra followed the lead—say 200 men. In the mean time the rebels had levied a contribution on the city of 01- ram.% of 50,000 dollars, to he paid forthwith, or they would come and collect it. They draw on the Custom-house for present expences. The following is an extract of a letter received at Bal timore C. t% a•CC! ' 'May 14..--Ilrfairo this reaches you, you will pro bably have hea rd of a political' eruption which has recently taken place. Venezuela haa 'declared herself independent of the general Government, or rather, claims the right of enacting her provim t cial laws, and of governing and directing her provincial finances and judiciary, regardless of the supreme executive of Bogota, but remaining at the same time one of the states of the Republic, en joying the privileges of provincial legislation. If this is the true intention of this rupture, I think it not an unreasonabfe'dernand. All this has originated since' thO sispension of general Met from the command of this department. When he was on the eve of departure for Bogota, to defend his conduct before the Senate, the troops became argnai nted with the circumstances—the officers could not restrain them ; they threw away their arms, the officer* threw away their s words, the soldiers demanded their General—declared a determination not to serve under Gen. Esealons ;• in short, Valencia became a scene Of confusion and uproar. Thee/Abdo assembled, and General Pact was reinstated in his command. The moment he appeared among his troops, they returned quietly to their duty ; only three or four persons were murdered. This led to a declara don of independence, the final result of which is concealed in the womb of time. General Peet is expected here to-day. Ido not know whether he brings troops or not. General Marino came in a few days since, with a small body of cavalry from the plains. lie was met and escorted into town by the members of the Cit.. or some of them, and by a number of private citizens. They entered the city about seven o'clock in the evening, with some degree of noise, crying Viva Bolivar !'—' Viva Paez Viva Marino Viva Venezuela!' The old cry of Viva Co lombia y viva la Petrie,' appeared to be entirely forgotten. Such now is the state of things here, though I scarcely ever knew Ca raccas so perfectly tranquil. No excesses have been committed by the soldiers here, nor have I heard of any murders, except those in Valencia.' " CARACCAS, MAY 10.—His Britannic Majesty's frigate Ga latea anehored off Laguayra last week, having on board Mr. Alex ander Cockburn, Minister Plenipotentiary from the British Go vernment to our Republic. Mr. Cockburn continued his voyage to Carthitgena on Saturday, front whence, we understand, he designs proceeding to Bogota by the river Magdalena. By the same opportunity arrived Mr. Dawkins, on his route to Panama, whither he proceeds u a Commissioner of the British Govern meta, to be present at the meeting of the General Congress. " We understand that letters of a late date are in town from his Excellency the Liberator, dated Lima, stating that be should re pair forthwith to Panama, and thence to Bogota. " Our advices from Bogota are to the 10th ult. The papers contain the address of General Santander to the people of Colom bia, on his retiring front the Vice.Presideney. The principal ar gument used by the General for this Act ia, the danger to liberty resulting from the prolonged continuance in power of one man, and that a military man. " The Congress determined in its sittings of the 17th of March, that all military and civil servants of the Republic, archbishops and bishops, prebends, curate', tics. having seats in Congress , shall not be entitled in future .la-other emolument' than those which they may derive from their respective professions, or from their salaries as members of Congress, but in no case will they he allowed both. •' A law has also passed the Congress, permitting the continu ance of the Senator and General-in-Chief, Antonio Jose de Sucre, in the Republic of Bolivia, during the pleaaurt of the Colombian Government. Another law has also been sanctioned, having for its object the opening two roads from Quito to the coast of the Pacific, one of them to the Bay of Ceraccas, and the other to Emeralds". " Colonel Diego Valenilla is named intendant of Oronoeo, and Colonel Jose Maria Ortega, Commander-in-Chief of Cundina marea." d , Ntw YORK, JUNE 5. " COLOMBIA. The Baltimore American says the original cause of the insurrectionary movement at V a l enc i a , as related a t L aguayra, was this :--' General Paez, the military commandant of Venezu ela, having made improp er use of the funds intend e d f or the pay of the army, hi s drafts 011 the Treasury hisrsyofCa dertaecznwaetirnen rtoefteistend. payment. Upo n thi s refusal, he pre ploy force in ord er to obtain payment, which had t h e delired effect. the tr z, army acid t o t h General latter, A representatio n of hie conduct having been transmit te d to Bogota, he was ordered t o surrender the he rn Escalona, and to repair to the capital. The troops, however, re fused to ackno w l e d ge an y General ''liula n t ( l i tan p a in retaining th e command over them, issued a P roclamation, in which, among other things, he declared that he did so to prevent the consequences which might arise &Om the conduct of soldiers without a commander. He added, that he should continue in com mand until the arrival of Bolivar: who was expected in the month of June. We Understand a copy of this Proclamation has been for warded to our Government.' "A letter from Laguayra gives a different account, anti states that when Gen. Pass was impeached by the Senate, he imme• diately resigned his command, and was about to repair to Bogota in obedience to orders, when he was called' to resume his com mend by the troops and the corporation of Valencia. He ac, eeptetl the call, and avowed his determination to support the views of those who had reinstated him in authority, which were to have a separate government kn. Venezuela, dependent only on the ge neral Government, as the different States of North America are on the Congress and Executive at Washington. Most of the citi zens are desirous of this form of Government, but disapprov, of the manner in which it is brought about.' " The same letter states—' We have only recently received from Bogota, intelligence that Government has passed a law, funding all the Government paper, and fixing the interests to be paid from July next.' " VERA Cana, APRIL 26.—A Mexican frigate, two brigs of war, and several schooners, are now lying here, and the appear ance of a Spanish fleet is daily looked for by the inhabitants. se veral suspicious vessels have been cruising off the coast. The place is becoming very sickly; from 20 to 100 persons die daily, and many foreigners have already fallen victims to the fever. Gen. Packwood, the English Consul for Vera Cruz, arrived here in the iloop of war Tweed, Captain Hume. The French frigate Nymph is still lying here, having brought out Commissioners with powers to treat and acknowledge the independence of the Mexican Government." JAMAICA. The Melville packet from Jamaica has brought letters and papers to the 16th of May. A dissolution of the Noise of As sembly of that island was expected shortly to take place, on account of its determined resistance to the Slave-Evidence Bill and other measures proposed by England for the amelioration of slavery, and a canvass had conunenced in sonic of the parishes. The Govern ment, meantime, was not inattentive to the proper means for awakening a better disposition in the planters, and the medium of the press was used to point out the danger of a quarrel with the mother country, the force and unanimity of public feeling in England against the slave system, and the uselessness of resisting it. The Kingston Chronicle published along letter from a mem ber of the British Parliament, furnishing a sort of comment on the debates relative to the slave question, with remarks on the temper of the Ministry and the people on that subject, and closing with advice to the planters, as to the most prudent mode of regu lating their conduct. We select, as the question is at once inte resting and important, a few passages from this letter : " You will observe that, in the whole course of these debates, there is not one person who did not admit the extinction of sla very to be the whole object of Parliament and the country—an object which they were determined to accomplish, and that the only difference was as to the means and time of its accomplish ment. Nobody ventured to contend that the state of slavery ought to be maintained for ever. Even the Lord Chancellor, who spoke most strongly as to " the due consideration for the rights of private property," expressed his entire approbation of the resolutions of the House of Commons, and his concurrence; in the object of putting an end to slavery. In a word, this feeling has become so universal throughout the country, that any opposition to it would he quite hopeless. The Ministry are committed to the Trinidad Order in Council, and the country are determined to have measures adopted in the colonies, which shall afford some certain means of putting an end to slavery, though they may be content to agree to their beins gradual and slow in the operation. —They are also very much dissatisfied with the Colonial Legisla tures. They would, I believe, now have applauded any mea sure of rigour which the Government might have been disposed to adopt fur enforcing the Trinidad regulations, and if the Assem blies should not adopt them all (or with few or unimportant ex ceptions), the country and the Parliament will _drive the Go vernment to some strong measures of coercion. " Seeing how violently and bow rapidly the torrent of public feeling is running, I am convinced the only chance of preserving the independence of the Colonial Legislatures, is by the adoption of the regulations which are about to be sent out in their next session. • It is difficult for gentlemen resident in Jamaica to be fully aware of the force of public feeling in England ; but you may depend upon it that my representation does not fall short of the truth, and you cannot do a more important service than communicate the same throughout the whole circle of your ac quaintance." In an address to the freeholders of the parish of St. Elizabeth, published in the Royal Gazette, adverting to the efforts made in various quarters to influence voters to retu rn members opposied to the s ave -evnisnee sod other Bills, it is remarked, that the very arguments made use of for continuing 'sn unavailing op position to such measures, would better apply in support of them; for should mischief, or loss of property (a most improbable re sult), be the consequence of our yielding to the wishes of Great Britain, surely we should have a much stronger hold on her for compensation, than by throwing down the gauntlet of defiance, offering ridiculous opposition to measures which Great Britain, in the plenitude of her power, is determined to carry; and she need not resort to force—a mere fiscal alteration of .duties on our produce would effect our ruin, arid make our properties not worth two years' purchase." From all appearances the struggle is likely to be a severe one, for though arguments like these appeal strongly to the reason and interests of the planters, their prejudices are too strong, and their irritability too great, to allow the judgment its fair exercise. As a specimen of the probable temper of the new Assembly o this Island, we insert the following address of Mr. Barratt, a lead. ing member of the last Assembly, to his constituents, on his offer. ing himself to represent them : " TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF VIZ PARISH Or ST. JAMES. " I declare myself an advocate for the adoption of measures by the Legislature which shall reconcile the island to our countrymen in Great Britain. "If to treat with contempt the entreaties of onr friends at home—if to deride and defy the representations of the King's Mi nisters—if to be stupidly regardless of the voice of all England, he qualifications necessary to secure your good will, I confess myself vanquished before I appear at the poll. But, however heroic it may he to set up Jamaica against the world, and to.devote oneself the victim of a fanciful patriotism, the patriot should remember, that in his own destruction is involved the destruction of the Colony. If he should suffer alone, his courage would be admired, his motives unsuspected. I shall never aspire to purchase an o e v n o a e c a y l , f t .r e i e i ni a t t i t i e w h is aza o n u s l o o l i f e h s u d b e v iv e r i t o i 'a the b g y en m e r y a fi l rmness o dare to avow, if I am returned to the Assembly, that I will con sider every question that comes before the House on its own merits—that I conceive his Majesty's Ministers have the same right to recommend measures to our Legislature which they daily exercise in the Imperial Parliament. But while I declare I con demn no measure simply because it comes recommended from the Crown, I must add, that neither threats nor quarter shall ev er f r i g ht en or seduce me to consent to laws having the most remot e t en d ency to d i sturb the fundamelital institutions, soever na ture or to endanger p ro p erty of whatsoever that property may be. promistA front any " These, gentlemen, are my principles--they are the principles of all who think we are not strong enough to withstand success fully the univ ersa l ca ll o f the parent state for melioration, and who acknowledge th a t our l aws have not yet attained perfection. Every freeholder professing these pri nc ipl es will give me his vote and in terest. The p resent members have hitherto resisted any alterat i on in our cod e , and it is g e n era ll y un d ers t oo d that their opinions have nut changed." INDIAN INTELLIGENCE. The ...,Pui sr p r i se s t e am-packet reached Calcutta on the 6th February, front Rangoon the Oth January, with the dispatches for the Supreme Government. The intelligence she brings is far from Justifying a hope of immediate peace, though the success of our arms leaves our ultimate success in no way doubtful. Mr. Mangles, the Secretary to the Commissioners, waited on the Woongees at Malloon, on the 18th ult. with Major Jackson and Lieut. Smith, to explain the terms upon which the Commander of the British Forces was willing to refrain from active hostil e opera tions, notwithstanding the failure on their part t o f u lfil t h e i r pre vious engagements. The Woongees having refused to sign th ese conditions were informe d th a t t he truce would end at midnight, and advised of the cotuiequenees. - - eut. „f his Majeity'a 12th, had been released by the B urmeae . There is every reason to believe that the King's brother, Memis 80, was killed on the 19th. Bpv wrrose.—Letters of the 27th January state, that the de sert Herbert had been condemned. The fort of Weir was re ported to be as strong as Bhurtpore; but no show of resistance was offered, and one of the gates was tak en p oss ession of by a Naik. Catxtrrra, FIB. I3.—Yesterday th e E nterpr i se aga i n l e f t f or Rangoon, having on board M r . C rawford, who goes as third Member of the Commission. If the war continues, he is to take charge of the. Delta of Pegu, with the districts of %twin and Martaban. Dispatches have been received from Captain Burney, Envoy to Siam, announcing his arrival at ttankok on the 4th Dec. fie had his first audience of the King of Siam on the 16th Dec., and was received in a gracious and friendly manner. CONTRACT FOR LEVER TARGETS. NAVY-Orricx, JULY 4, 185. , 5. THE principal Officers and Commissioners of I i Majesty's Navy do hereby give notice, That on Tucel DAY, the 20th Instant, at One o'Clock, they will be reedYl treat with arch Persons as may be willing to contract for WA' ing His Majesty's Navy with LEVER TARGETS, inventedbi Lieutenant GEORGE SMITH, R.N. ;to be delivered at MA ) jeity's Dock Yards at Deptford and Woolwich, according 0 Pattern, which, together with a Form of the Tender, WO' . seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'f' l,4 on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party, 1 " ar Agent for him, attends. Every Tender mist be accompanied by a Letter addresbed to the Navy Board, and signed by Two responsible Personi , gaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the SO, of NW., for the due performance Ole NO TIME TO LOSE. SIX TI - lIRTY THOUSAI POUND PRIZES NEXT TUESDAY WEEK, Wil l ALL LOTTERIES END FOR EVER. PRICES OF STOCKS Till Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red TT! % 3 per Cent. Cons. per Cent. 44 Ditto Red Bs Ss 4 per Cent. New Ditto Scrip ---- Bank Long Ann. i IB India Stock shut Ditto Bonds 8 9 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN F' Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds :is) Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds, fi per ct. Coloinbian Bo nds 2ti Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, Ife2s ION 11 Guatunala Mexican Bonds Ditto, 1825 10i 2} 21 3} 3} S South rA Y Se A a S T to O c k N .. E O' CL OCK .... .. ... ' Old Annuities .............. .......... New Ditto , .. ............. Ex. Bills, 11,1/00 .......... 81 to Ditto ßank a S ff A oo m d rr a i A • l c l e r e ti o 7 u e . Account t dd . Cons. for Account ...... !NOS AT ONE O'CLOCK' Neapolitan, 1821 .......... ........ Peruvian Bonds ..................... Portuguese Bonds .............. . Prussian, 5 per cent. DMA), New .......................... Russian, New, 5 per cent. ...." Sprtniai, 1821, 5 per cent. 182:3 .................. ..«. French Rentet 5 p c • ...... - Exchange .4- -3 per cent. .4 -Exchange . PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Paid. Per fi r ' General limning Asbociatior4 . .ZS United Mexican Mining Company 2O li Provincial Bank of Ireland l5 __.--- COURSE OF EXCH.! Amsterdam C.F. 12 9 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 12 Antwerp l2 12 Hamburg)) 2 U. 37 11 Altona 2 U. 38 0 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 95 Bordeaux 25 95 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 156% Petersburgb, rble 3 Us. 8% Vienna, eltbetive ti 2 M. 10 28 TriNte do. Madrid Cadiz NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 41 Genoa 13 Venice 46 Malta Naples 96 Palermo per oz. li t Lisbon 50 Oporto 50 Rio Janeiro it Bahia 46 43 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight ...... Cork , 6ULLIO3I, TER OZ. d, so 0 , Portugal Gold, in coin .... 0 ~,, fi , Foreign Gold, in bar 5...... 3 1 ' 0 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 t • 4 II Silver, in bars, standard 1„.„, Bilboa Barcelona Seville Gibraltar M A Arrived. Due. I Dublin I Waterford 0 I Guernsey & Jersey 0 O Lisbon 0 O Gottenburgh I Hamburgh O Holland O France ILS. Arrived. 00 ° .I F La a in ma n' a l i e c *.. r r a: ** ... .. 0 Malta 0 America 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres ....0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-Nlolo or . Morning 55 minutes after 2. Evening 13 minutes sne LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 10. the A p s ubt e in in' tensity. On no thriller occasion within our reco llec 'i b l e u a rc n s c t ial re quart e r s ta r n e •s sul t t o‘ i % i • l a c rt re l s ase it s s don, was the amount of the revenue in a precedingi quarter inquired for with the same anxiety which i s , manifested at the present moment. This, we apprel hend, does not arise from the prevalence of any spir 4l, of speculation at this time, but from an eager O il :, in all classes for information as to the real state of country, of which 'the financial accounts are sup pol to afford strong evidence. We have, of course' s ; common with our contemporaries, heard many' conflicting' . rumours as to the amount of the qiisitf r " receipt, and we are in possession of as, many facts c 411 _,: netted with th e su bj ect as any o f th ose j ourna ls have thought fit to publish partial statements of th e amount of different branches of the revenue, and in i ; dulged in surmis e s of the total amount ; but we sh al l refrain f rom o ff er i n g any observations which mig ht only mislead our readers, , till we lay before the m (which we shall be able to do to-morrow) the olfc lgi returns of the qurater's revenue. unsdalayt'e dniingght.theTil:e:/;/3106 dat T ey n xi cl o i n ( P i a u y p , e rreac h ed u entirely barren of any news. The Conrt of Peers , the Report which has been made to it on the act'''' s t a te of the proceedings in th e a ff a i r o f t h e contracts e t B a yonne, has decided that it will assemble on Friday' July 21, to hear the Report of the Supplementa r Y Inquiry, ordered by the decision of June 10. Eleven columns of the Monileur are filled with the Report of the Duke de BRISSAC, in the name of th e Special Com m itt ee a p po i n t e d to exam i ne t h e pro le' t of law relative to the fixing of the Budget for 15 4 ,27. • The Etoile has the following article, dated Peter? burgh, June 17 : The Duke of Devonshire had a private audience of his MajoitY to-day. The Emperor, after having spent the day at Peterehoff, a rrive d here yesterday evening. The Grand Duke Michael, who stem' panied his Majesty to Petershotr, has also arrived here. The funeral procession of the late Empress Elizabeth arrived a Mojaisk on the 7th June, at ten o'clock at night. The col" " 4a . placed in the Cathed ra l, w h ere the Archbishop Pbilasele Pe" formed the funeral serv i ce i n presence of the Empress Mother.' The procession set out aga i n at three o ' clock next day. We give in another column, from private col pondence, a cur i ous account o f t h e mo d e i n w hi c h I , DUPIN, the liberal Advocate, bad been Cajoled, by the Jesuits at St. Acheal, into taking part in a pro. cession through the village. .These master; in the Jai of deception appear to possess the distinguishing character of their sect in a superlative degree. Faure it FUNDS. —Five per Cent s ., 98f. 60c.--Three po 72f. 40c.--BPailiala Ditto, 6E 50 c . Cents. 65f. 95c. --- Bank Actions, 2016._ Neapolitan Rent* By New York Papers to: the Bth ult. which wer e received at Liverpool by the Corinthian on Monday night, we have been put in possession of some fur' ther particulars respecting the revolt of General poi , which will be found in another these acc ounts we learn not hi ng f ur th er a s t o the oh' ject) or probabl e resu lt of the - Revolution. Other reached accounts, howev er , which have column, but from town, lead 147 1 the belief that the Rebellion has not for its object the partitioning of the territories of the Republic, but 15 merely for its avowed purpose, namely, the introdue' tion of a federative system, as far as regards Vette' zuela. It would appear that another insurrection ha's broken out in America. A Vera CrUz Paper of April 20, rt" ccived at New Orleans, contains an account of an iota' tbt ium